Is flat design a passing trend or something more?

We all know the nature of trends in the industry, and unfortunately, that tends to equate to something of a short shelf life for any one particular technique. But what if “flat design” wasn’t just a trend, but in fact, a return to a cleaner, simpler aesthetic in the wake of minimalism’s popularity and an evoloving web? What if it is in fact, an retrograde evolution in the field’s tendency toward flatness? 

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Blueprints For Web And Print: Specctr, A Free Adobe Illustrator Plugin

Have you ever submitted design files to a development team for production and a few weeks later gotten something back that looks nothing like your original work? Many designers and design teams make the mistake of thinking that their work is done once they’ve completed the visual design stage.

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cloud.IQ Offers Conversion Tools to Turn Abandoned Carts Into Sales for Online Retailers

Over 70% of shoppers recently admitted to sometimes abandoning carts while browsing online (OnePoll). This problem can be fatal for eCommerce businesses which have to offer their customers the best user experience possible, or risk losing sales to the competition. To solve these issues for online retailers, Magento Silver Industry partner cloud.IQ developed a cloud-based tool to remarket shoppers and ultimately, convert more sales, and cloud.IQ has already helped many businesses turn these abandoned carts into sales. In August 2013 Alpine Elements started using cloud.IQ’s cartRecovery tool to track and recover abandoned carts by automatically remarketing, across multiple channels, to customers who drop out during the checkout phase.

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E-commerce Holiday White Paper: Ring up more sales this holiday shopping season!

The holiday season is around the corner and the opportunity to ring up good cheer is knocking at your door. That’s why we teamed with our friends from PayPal to bring you an E-commerce Holiday White Paper on how to get your e-commerce site ready for the BIGGEST shopping season of the year. Download your FREE copy today! Unwrap the best tips for this holiday season with our E-commerce Holiday White Paper!
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25+ awesome responsive menu solutions

We love responsive web design and rightfully so. As a matter of fact, it’s almost mind boggling when a website isn’t responsive these days. It’s been a trend on the up and up for a while now. It’s also been a trend that seems to change and create new technology every week to make it better.
One of the hardest parts of creating responsive designs is creating navigation menus that work on the larger screens as well as on the smaller screens. With responsive design, we can’t just take a whole website and scale it down; we have to actually plan it out so that it makes sense on mobile phones, tablets and desktops.

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Easily create stunning animated charts with Chart.js

Charts are far better for displaying data visually than tables and have the added benefit that no one is ever going to press-gang them into use as a layout tool. They’re easier to look at and convey data quickly, but they’re not always easy to create. A great way to get started with charts is with Chart.js, a JavaScript plugin that uses HTML5′s canvas element to draw the graph onto the page. It’s a well documented plugin that makes using all kinds of bar charts, line charts, pie charts and more, incredibly easy.

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How to Hire your First Employees for your Online Store

Finding yourself unable to keep up with orders and customer requests? The good news is that your sales are skyrocketing but with the growth of a business also comes the decision of whether to hire more employees. 

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